Over the past few years, we’ve come to respect the logistical power of drones to, for example, conduct surveillance in places and weather conditions airplanes and pilots cannot. Drones can remain on ...

An unmanned police helicopter has been tested in the UK for the first time. The remotely-piloted aircraft is larger than existing drones used by police forces and has a greater range and cuts ...

Adapting “loyal wingman” drones to helicopters is a fundamentally different challenge than adopting them to planes, as helicopters are far slower and operate at significantly lower altitudes. The ...

Apache crews from the South Carolina Army National Guard (SCANG) employed all of the helicopter’s four primary weapons against the drones – the AGM-179 JAGM, AGM-114 Hellfire II, the APKWS II and its ...

Helicopter air assaults once symbolized the decisive strike behind enemy lines. Today, their role is fading as small, inexpensive drones paralyze logistics at a fraction of the cost and risk. The ...